MacArthur Foundation Archives

BUK’s Mambayya House Lights the Candle With Series on J S Tarka, Aminu Kano, Akunyili and Others

Posted By: adminon: May 24, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Aminu Kano, Awo, BUK, CDS, Dora Akunyili, Emancipatory Ethnicity, Joseph Tarka, MacArthur FoundationNo CommentsViews:

It is what they call lighting the candle in one little corner, the candle being a performance of the illumination that light brings to darkness. Nigeria is a dark space of ethno-religious an... Read more

In Jigawa State of Nigeria, Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad is Democracy’s Paradox

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Alhaji Sule Lamido, APC, Commissioner for Health, Jigawa State, MacArthur Foundation, Maternal mortality, Media Adviser, PDPNo CommentsViews:

Intervention or, more appropriately, some people within it, ought to have known that Dr. Nurrudden Mohammed was contesting to be a Senator from Jigawa State of Nigeria. He did hint Intervent... Read more

Today, We Remember And Honour Prof Abubakar Momoh, Our Mentor, Comrade And Friend – Dr. Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Iron Cross, Legion of Honour, MacArthur Foundation, The Electoral Institute, Victoria CrossNo CommentsViews:

Protocols, It is with utmost gratitude to the Almighty creator that I welcome you to this Fifth Memorial in honour of our dear colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Abubakar Momoh. As I st... Read more

Updated: Building on NPSA’s Recent Maneuver in the Methodological Battlespace

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Atiku Abubakar Foundation, Dangote, Elumelu Foundation, Interpretivism, MacArthur Foundation, Michel Foucault, NPSA, Postpositivism, Rationalism, TY Danjuma FoundationNo CommentsViews:

This is republished in strict obedience to the DIRECTIVE to make this more easily readable and more understandable by all. It was thought to be understandable by nearly all. Some senior read... Read more

Writing Corruption: Kole Shettima and the Challenge of Consolidating Generational Exceptionalism in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2022In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN), MacArthur Foundation, NANS, Panadol, Prof Attahiru Jega, WINNo CommentsViews:

This piece contends that there is a challenge of consolidation of the exceptionalism that can be argued for the designers, ideologues, activists, hand clappers and other minders or protagoni... Read more

All the King’s Men and All the King’s Horses Still ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ Against Corruption in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2020In: FlashbackTags: CISLAC, CPI, EFCC, MacArthur Foundation, Social media, TI, ‘Voices from below’No CommentsViews:

The 2019 global corruption perception index is out and, in the case of Nigeria, all the coalitions, propaganda, discourses, convictions and threats directed at corruption have not amounted t... Read more

Drop Death Penalty on Hate Speech and Face More Critical Issues Affecting Nigerians – CITAD Tells Senate

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: CITAD, Death Penalty, Hate Speech, MacArthur Foundation, Senator Bala Ibn Na'AllahNo CommentsViews:

The adventure of the Nigerian Senate to impose death penalty on Hate Speech has suffered a solidarity casualty from the leading anti-Hate Speech campaigner in Nigeria – the Centre for Inform... Read more

Can the Poor Fight Corruption? The Views From Nigeria’s Federal Capital Poverty Hubs of Bwari, Nyanya, Mararaba, Jikwoyi and Gwagwalada

Posted By: adminon: October 06, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Cartesianism, False Consciousness, MacArthur Foundation, Marxism, The EnlightenmentNo CommentsViews:

Let this story begin from the beginning. Five years ago, the MacArthur Foundation, for example, came to a conclusion about corruption in Nigeria. Its own survey showed that corruption is at... Read more

June 2019 Diary of Nigeria’s Corruption Conundrum

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Afreximbank, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, CITAD, EFCC, MacArthur Foundation, Moscow, Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, President Paul Kagame, Senator Danjuma Goje, Senator Rochas OkorochaNo CommentsViews:

In April 2019 when the programme of activities for the Quarter just ended in MacArthur Foundation supported and CITAD administered engagement with corruption was drawn up, the Diary of Niger... Read more

UCL, NUC, Top Professors & Activists in a 7 – Hour Contentious Conversation on Nigerian Universities (1)

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2019In: FlashbackTags: ASUU, MacArthur Foundation, NESG, NUC, UCLNo CommentsViews:

The perceived virtual collapse of the university system in Nigeria was the subject of a 7-hour contentious conversation among key stakeholders in Abuja today. The assemblage happened to capt... Read more